An international research project which looks at bilingual education shows that children can learn a second language as early as preschool. Interim results from an international research project which ...

MIT’s Personal Robots Group has been piloting what they envision as "the preschool of the future" — a marriage between digital devices and a friendly classroom robot that could help tutor preschoolers ...

Preschoolers’ exposure to the stronger language skills of peers in the preschool classroom can have a small but significant impact on their language learning, according to a study published in the May ...

Illinois lawmakers have extended the category of English-language learners from K-12 students to include 3- and 4-year olds. But educators don’t agree whether it’s best for second-language learners in ...

Many Mackay preschool students will be given the chance to learn another language this year through the Liberal National Government's Early Learning Languages Australia (ELLA) program. ELLA is a ...

Think you haven't got the aptitude to learn a foreign language? In a new study, neuroscientists predict which study participants would be more successful second language learners simply by measuring a ...

The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) defines dyslexia as a brain-based type of learning disability that specifically impairs a person's ability to read (see here). The ...

Italian cardinal Joseph Caspar Mezzofanti was said to have spoken more than 38 languages fluently at the time of his death in 1849, a skill that would have been imminently useful in today's globalized ...